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Using Mac OS X Finder Droplets to quickly launch text editors

Shiny Droplets are small AppleScript-based applications that integrate with the Finder toolbar to provide fast shortcuts to text editors and other applications.

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Mac OS X Quick Tip: Launch the screen saver with a bash script using AppleScript

Mac OS X has a built-in command line utility called osascript that can read and execute AppleScript files or execute AppleScript commands passed as an argument.

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Change the OS X Network Location from the command line or an AppleScript application

Using AppleScript and the scselect command line utility, it’s possible to build an application that will toggle the system between Network Locations when run.

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Display Growl notifications from an AppleScript

Growl is a Mac OS X add-on that allows applications or scripts to display messages in a fading notification box, as spoken text, or as an email.

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Bulk convert HTML, RTF, etc. documents to PDF using the Mac OS X command line or an AppleScript

OS X has PDF printing support built-in, and a Terminal command or AppleScript can convert virtually any kind of document to the PDF format.

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Resize Images Using AppleScript

A description of a tip from a well-known Mac blog on using AppleScript to resize images easily in OS X.

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